How Does Nivmagus Elemental grow?
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Posted on Feb. 10, 2013, 6:25 a.m. by KrisLoom186
By exiling sorcery or instants from your graveyard or buy exiling a sorcery or instant from your hand? It has under your control so I don't know if you control your own graveyard.
Overvoltage says... #3
It exiles spells you control that are on the stack, so for example, you would cast something, and then before passing priority [and before it resolves] you exile it from the stack and put two +1/+1 counters on Nivmagus Elemental. Alternatively, if you cast a spell while you control a Nivmagus Elemental, and that spell is responded to [eg: some counterspell is played or some ability is put on the stack such as regeneration], you can choose at that time to exile your spell also, since you would once again have priority [but it's still before the spell resolves]. Since the spell is exiled, it does not resolve and it does not go to your graveyard [the spell and card itself are exiled from the game]
February 10, 2013 6:51 a.m.
SwiftDeath says... #4
the only way is to exile the instant or sorcery off of the stack. as soon as you cast the card it becomes a spell on the stack. if it is in your hand, library, or graveyard then it is a card not a spell.
February 10, 2013 6:51 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #5
From the CR:
Spell
A card on the stack. Also a copy (of either a card or another spell) on the stack. See rule 111, "Spells."
February 10, 2013 6:54 a.m.
he uses it turn 1 maybe i linked wrong. either way its david ocho vs brad nelson at pro tour return to ravnica (modern)
February 10, 2013 12:15 p.m.
No Sunforger , no one said cipher.. Cute idea but it is to slow and by that time the nivmagus will either be killed or blocked.
xuerebx says... #2
You cast a spell, and you exile it while it's on the stack. I used to find it the most efficient to exile a spell if your opponent plays a counter spell in response to a spell you play.
February 10, 2013 6:49 a.m.